Dogwood Ramblings

Here is an excerpt from an e-mail received, written by a Democrat who had previously voted for Obama. This man, Bob Correal went to see the movie “2016”, which revealed to him the true Obama, upholding the serious concerns he ...

A trip to Springfield last week let me see so many fields of downed and baled hay. Quite a surprise after the summer we have had. The ponds we had cleaned out now have some water in them. Some calves ...

Remember back when we were told to put money into savings accounts of some sort and the interest rates at that time were pretty good? We were told we were spending too much money and frivolously. Well, now checking account ...

If you aren’t totally put off by last week’s column allow me to share another memory tidbit from my prison work in California in the 1970’s. Part of the time at this prison I worked in the psychiatric unit which ...

Have you ever heard the old song I’m My Own Grandpa? It was quite the hit many, many years ago. Cute as it is, the tale it tells is a bane to genealogists. Today, with multiple marriages that result in ...

Last week while I was in town a friend found Jack (the latest stray) down the road a bit and brought him back here. Jack had escaped from the back yard. However, the friend put him in my garage, not ...

This Weeks News – James Madison, the primary author of the Constitution of the United States, said this: ‘We have staked the whole future of our new nation, not upon the power of government; far from it. We have staked the future of ...

Here we go again. The administration in D.C. has now mandated that in a few years all new vehicles must give us 55 miles to the gallon. According to the New York Times (a fish wrap paper), this will add ...

Lately I’ve been inundated with e-mails containing essays and “reports” about the upcoming Republican and Democratic conventions, as well as the general election in November. Unfortunately, the majority of these indicate these events being targeted for violence, violence perpetrated by ...